The Member of Parliament for Ningo/Prampram, Sam George Nettey has accused the group of high profile Ghanaians pushing for the rejection of “The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021″ of doing so for financial rewards.

The private member’s Bill, which is currently before Parliament, seeks to criminalize the activities of lesbian (female homosexuals), gay (male homosexuals), bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ ) in the country.

The Group made up of lawyers and academics said the Bill ought, with respect, to be firmly rejected by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs, and by Parliament as a whole, adding that Bill had no place in Ghana’s constitutional democratic republic.

Lawyer Akoto Ampaw, a Member of the Group, speaking at a press conference in Accra, said the group in a Memorandum to Parliament, expressed its opposition to the passage of a bill which they believed threatened to undermine the rights and freedoms Ghanaians had fought for and gained as citizens of our democratic republic.

“We, therefore, call on the freedom-loving people of Ghana to ask their representatives in Parliament to reject this dangerous bill and ask you to disseminate to the public our views on this issue.”

He noted that the LGBTQ Bill currently before Parliament was a major step backward for democracy, inclusiveness, the protection of minorities and the vulnerable in society, and of fundamental human rights in Ghana.

But reacting to the comments by the group in an interview on Starr FM Wednesday, Sam George Nettey who is one of the sponsors of the Bill stated that the hidden motivation for the group’s move can only be financial.

“Go and check all the Civil Society Groups they belong to and check where their funding sources are and then you’ll understand that this is a bread and butter issue for them. Because if they say they don’t support the act and that they are fighters for the rights of people, why were they silent when the issue of the rasta boys came up, why the two Rastafarian boys do not have rights? When Kaaka was killed, which of them rose up to speak? when eight Ghanaians were killed in the conduct of the 2020 elections which of these eighteen individuals who today tell us that they are doyens of human rights, fighters of freedom for human rights which of them spoke?

Sam George added: “They claim they are doing this on the basis of principles, I say it’s financial, monitory principle because if you have principles, your principles will show constantly in your activism. I have given instances over the past ten months when they’ve not spoken, they’ve been silent. Today, because there’s LGBT money to be paid they’ve found their voices.”

Members of the Group of Ghanaian kicking against the Bill include Professor Emerita Takyiwaa Manuh, Lawyer Akoto Ampaw, Professor Kwame Karikari, Professor Kofi Gyimah-Boadi, Professor Audrey Gadzekpo, Dr Rose Mensah-Kutin, Dr Yao Graham and Professor Dzodzi Tsikata.

The rest are Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh, Mr Kwasi Adu Amankwah, Dr Kojo Asante, Mr Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah, Mr Akunu Dake, Mr Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei, Professor Raymond Atuguba, Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, Dr Joseph Asunka and Nana Ama Agyemang Asante.

Source: Kasapafmonline.com